Letty | Calgary’s Best New Restaurants 2025

by Elizabeth Chorney-Booth

Letty’s mortadella pizza with pistachio pesto. Photo by Jared Sych.

Who’s behind it
Savoury and pastry chef Daniel Ramon

When it opened
July 2024

The dish to eat
Mortadella pizza with pistachio pesto

It’s about time chef Daniel Ramon opened a place of his own. Over the years, Ramon has turned heads with both his baking and chocolate skills at Market, Teatro and Alforno, as well as his ability to put together surprising and flavourful small plates, most recently at Clos de la Oyster Barre. Letty — primarily, but not exclusively, a pizza joint — brings those worlds together. Ramon gets to nerd out on his Neapolitan dough while also focusing on interesting pizza toppings and a menu of punchy small plates. Go for just the pizza, stacked with toppings like sun-dried tomato pesto and whipped mascarpone or nduja with honey and oregano, or make it a fuller meal by matching with irresistible small plates, like the Buffalo-style fried enoki or gouda-crowned beef tartare.

Letty sits on the ground floor of the BLVD Beltline building where Ramon was also tasked with providing coffee and daytime snacks for residents, which he does via a weekend brunch at Letty and also through Otie, an extraordinary dessert and pastry shop around the corner. Add in Letty’s drink list, which features a refreshing list of highballs rather than typical overly boozy cocktails, and you’ve got a full-service, food-and-beverage hub, just steps from Stampede Park.

247 12 Ave. S.E., 587-393-1989, pizzaletty.com, @pizzaletty